Monster Hunter 4 Has A Touch Of The Wild West

As previously reported, one of Monster Hunter 4’s new features is that you now have a travelling base camp. You travel by caravan, and it seems your caravans are what transform into your camp. Concept art from the game’s official website gives us a look at this:

Don’t worry, though—just because there’s a more wild west look the caravans doesn’t mean that the Monster Hunter-style armour sets you’re familiar with will be gone. Capcom shared concept art of those, too:

And here’s concept art of some interiors:

And finally, some terrain shots and other kinds of environments:

Monster Hunter 4 will be released for the Nintendo 3DS in 2013. The game has been in development for about two years now. Capcom say this game has the most development staff assigned to it in the series’ history.

Cool MH + Oregon Trail, you can now die fighting monsters or from dysentery…

Code

Haha, that’s kind of a neat direction, I really didn’t expect that o3o~!! Also the antenna on that female armor, I so wanna believe that’s from a crab T3T;;; Interesting stuff although I hope this doesn’t mean an abundance of deserts, probably my least favorite terrain >__<;; Says something since usually I hate ice/snow environments so much more, but MH is an exception.

CrimsonalCore

I’m sure there’ll be another area to explore! :D My hype is rising so high, I want to split Capcom’s throat if they don’t localize this. XD

http://twitter.com/ifarah12 Gren

and then Capcom passes on localization.

CrimsonalCore

No no no no no No No No NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO DON’T SAY IT. D:

I WANT THIS TO COME TO WEST! DX Although, it’s an Western style of Monster Hunter, from the look of it and that WHITE ARMOR.<

aoihana

I love that wild west touch, definitely nice spin on Monster Hunter, and that transforming caravan is really neat! The character designs are awesome, but above all, I love the interiors! They’re really intricate!

The concept art for the terrains are really beautiful, and the game really reflects on them really well. They have a very saturated, sharp feel, and from the 3D PV on the eShop, it’s very apparent in the game!

2013 will be glorious, surely! (◕‿◕✿)

Neutron15

More Monster Hunter 4 details have been transcribed from Famitsu.
Much of the news comes from Ryozo Tsujimoto, the game’s producer.

For a summary of the latest information, check out the summary below.

- In development for two years
- Development scale is the largest in series history
- Developing ran in parallel with Monster Hunter Tri G
- The team was able to take the better ideas from Tri G and use them in Monster Hunter 4
- Target camera was added to Tri G because they were thinking about using it in MH4
- Can bring two Felynes with you on quests just like Tri G
- There will be “catchy” new elements related to Felynes
- Keyword for MH4: “adventure”
- Team wants solid drama for the single-player mode
- Looking to add major story developments to absorb players into the single-player mode
- Home base is called “Barubare”
- Barubare is a collection of caravans
- These caravans more to various areas
- Caravan’s leader and receptionist girl shown in Famitsu
- Uses a free camera due to the height variations
- Can do jump attacks that make use of height differences
- Enemies will see changes to their movements based off slope and height differences
- Environments can see changes and destruction
- New options and breadth to your overground actions
- Team is aiming to make a game that you’ll have fun just running around the fields
- Tsujimoto promises a fresh new play feel with new elements
- Name of the monster with big ears shown from the trailer is “Kecha Wacha”
- Field with the red rocks from the trailer is “Ruins Field” (Iseki Heigen)
- Local play of 1-4 players in mentioned in Famitsu’s information box
- Doesn’t say anything about online play

Caravans how? Reminds me of a Dragon Quest spin-off where you traveled around in a wagon and caught slimes.

CrimsonalCore

Oh, Dragon Quest Monsters?

http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/HAEBCODVH3BGFIHE47BKNDXD2I Jonathan

looks amazing~

Syn

Iis it just me or do the first two armor sets look like the digivolutions from digimon frontier, them being
Beetlemon ,
Agunimon, they look almost identical

riceisnice

Rikku?

Göran Isacson

Gotta say that’s some pretty goshdarn awesome armor concept-art. Som of it even looks, dare I say it… practical, and not just like a bunch of sharp stuff welded together to look cool and un-aerodynamic. Neat environments too, even if the in-game movies didn’t look quite so nice.

ZEROthefirst

To bad the best news we’ll ever get of this game will be Sven telling us to hold on, there’s a method to their madness about a year after the games release.